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Measuring Poverty
POVERTY

Measuring Poverty

To track progress toward the World Bank Group’s vision of a world free of poverty on a livable planet, it is necessary to regularly measure poverty through the collection and analysis of timely and robust data.
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OUR APPROACH TO
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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

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Measuring Welfare When It Matters Most: A Typology of Approaches for Real-time Monitoring
Measuring Welfare When It Matters Most: A Typology of Approaches for Real-time Monitoring
This typology takes stock of the growing body of work on real-time welfare monitoring, bringing together existing resources and lessons learned in one place.
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Guidebook for Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation for Poverty Measurement
Guidebook for Using Survey-to-Survey Imputation for Poverty Measurement
Recommendations and practical examples for deriving predicted monetary poverty measures based on survey-to-survey imputation of household consumption expenditures.
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Behind the numbers: How we measure global poverty
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/behind-the-numbers--how-we-measure-global-poverty
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Progress on Real Time Monitoring of Welfare
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Real-time welfare monitoring in action: Lessons from the ground
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Poverty

The World Bank Group uses the latest data, evidence, and analysis to help countries develop policies that can reduce poverty and inequality, and ultimately improve people's lives.

Explore our investments to reduce poverty

EXPLORE POVERTY FOCUS AREAS
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